[1] "Bright Lights, Big City", which opens the album, was released as a single around the same time.

It became one of Reed's most successful and last songs on the Billboard Hot R&B charts.

[2] The album includes several other Reed songs that appeared on the charts between 1956 and 1961.

[2] Writing for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger gave the album five out of five stars.

He noted "In some ways, it almost does make for a greatest-hits compilation, as it contains most of Reed's most popular tunes".